Third+week+of+February

__Monday 2/18__

 * ===No school!!===

__Tuesday 2/19__

 * ===Today, we will be finishing the Civil Rights Video (Oprah's Martin Luther King Jr. day special) and the students will continue presenting.===

__Wednesday 2/20__

 * ===Finish presenting Digital Presentations.===
 * ===Final summarizing activity for the unit: Write a 7/7 paragraph that answers the unit essential question, "What freedoms were African Americans fighting for during the Civil Rights Movement and why?===

__Thursday 2/21__

 * ===Go over answers to the 7/7 paragraph answering the essential question, collect them and the notes from the digital presentations.===
 * ===The students will begin the Poetry Unit, "What is poetry, how is it written and why is it a powerful art-form?"(This is going to be awesome!)===
 * ===students will do some brainstorming to answer the essential question with what they know right now, and then again at the end with what they learned.===
 * ===Homework: Ask an adult what his/her favorite poem/poet is and why.===

__Friday 2/22__

 * ===No school--snow day.===